CS 44, Winter 2011
Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence

Overview

This is a newly revised course. Material may be changed and re-organized with minimal notice. This page will be updated on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Lectures notes and homework will be linked off this page.

Date Topic Reading assignments and links Assignments

Week 1

Jan 4 Introduction to AI
R&N Chapter 1
Jan 5 Matlab Tutorial I
Instructions
Exercise
Jan 6 Agents
R&N Chapter 2; Additional Reading
HW#1 out (due Jan 13)

Week 2

Jan 11 Basic search
R&N Chapter 3
Jan 12 Matlab Tutorial II
Jan 13 Beyond basic search
R&N Chapter 4 HW#2 out (due Jan 28)

Week 3

Jan 18 Uncertainty
R&N Chapter 13
Jan 20 No class

Week 4

Jan 25 Uncertainty and Bayesian Networks
R&N Chapter 14; Additional Reading
Jan 27 No class HW#3 out (due Feb 10)

Week 5

Feb 1 Inference in Bayesian Networks
R&N Chapter 14
Feb 3 Hidden Markov Models
R&N Chapter 15; Additional Reading

Week 6

Feb 8 Machine Learning
R&N Chapter 18
Feb 9(X Hour) Midterm Reivew
Feb 10 Learning with Incomplete Data
R&N Chapter 18

Week 7

Feb 15 Midterm
Feb 17 The Watson Project
Smartest Machine on Earth;
Other Episodes
HW#4 out (due Feb 25)

Week 8

Feb 22 Propositional Logic
R&N Chapter 7
Feb 24 First Order Logic
R&N Chapter8 HW#5 out (due Mar 4)

Week 9

Mar 1 Natural Language Processing
R&N Chapte22; R&N Chapter23
Mar 3 Building Intelligent Mobile Systems

Week 10

Mar 8 Computer Vision